Old Man Learns to Code

I've gotten into a habit of decorating my console output strings with c o l o r s , like highlighting some fragments in Yellow , Red or whatever and then switching back to White elsewhere. Each escape code sequence is relatively long (e.g. Ansi for Yellow = "\033[1;33m"). And, the pointer to the escape code has to be encased in curly brackets ({code}). Typing all that out becomes a pain. A "what if?" occurred to me. What if ... I insert a two character, shortened escape code (akin to a bitly url) in my text, for example, a delimiter that starts with a tilda (~) and is followed by selector character in the range A-Z, a-z,0-9? So a 2-character sequence such as , " ~ W" would be converted to the Ansi escape code for white text. Thinking some more on that initial what-if brought more aha's: The tilda (~) on the keyboard needs a press of the SHIFT key. And the cap "W" also  needs a press of the SHIFT key.  Too much work! H...

  This is a repeated problem for me. I start too many projects. Finish none. And get bent out of shape over the frustrating comprehension (the meta-cognition ) that this "spread too thin" phenomenon is what is happening. The question is how to gain control over this predicament? How to organize ? How to focus on a fewer number of projects and topics at any one time so that at least some things get finished? (1) The info capture phase -- too easy. I bookmark everything . My bookmarks bar includes the following folders in the following order (left to right):     (1a) Recents -- year and month captures get accumulated here     (1b) Current month -- example: "Feb 2026"     (1c) Current start date of current round of collections -- example: "<-- 02/04"     (1d) Top Topic -- example: "Python" stores marks directed to this topic     (1e) 2ndary Topic example: "Learning"  stores marks directed to Learning about Learning"   ...